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Hyginus

[ hi-jahy-nuhs ]

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 140, pope 136–140.


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Typhon was originally called Γηγενης, and by Hyginus Terr Filius.

The Hyginus cleft is broader and runs directly through the crater ring of that name.

Thus Virgil relates the story in the Æneid; others, as Hyginus, give different accounts, though agreeing in the main points.

On another occasion a minute crater was thought to have arisen near the well-known object named Hyginus.

There must therefore have been a very rapid development of the constitution in the time between Hyginus and Victor.

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